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Nanoethics for the Plastocene: the value sensitive design of nanofiber materials

This paper focuses on how to respond appropriately to the problemof the (non-)biodegradability of nanofibers and how the integrationof ethics could help. First, the paper describes the experience of abioengineering research team at the Technical University ofLiberec in developing a technology for producing filtrationmaterials during the COVID-19 pandemic and the project thatwas implemented to provide support for ethical decision-makingin the field of research and development of nanotechnologies.The paper then …

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Science as culture

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda

“This doctor knows shit about you, but the first thing he says is, ‘you need to lose some weight’”: Anti-fat bias and the contradictory effects of fat medicalization in Czech healthcare

The anti-fat bias that is built on the premised principle antagonism between a fat and a healthy body remains entrenched in healthcare. Despite evidence that being fat is conditioned by many factors beyond a person’s control, fatness is often seen as a result of irresponsible behavior and moral failure and fat patients report being exposed to mistreatment, discrimination, and shaming in healthcare. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and written testimonies, we examine the experiences of people with fat em…

Topics: Care, Public health, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Review of Veganism, Archives and Animals: Geographies of a Multispecies World, by Catherine Oliver

Topics: Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Published review

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Nation (Un)masked: Imagined Immunities and Responsible Citizenship in a Postsocialist Pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic revealed a dramatic need for modes of solidarity and responsibility that take into account welfare of others and simultaneously stem from the recognition of global co-dependency and shared vulnerabilities. Using the concepts of ‘imagined immunity’ and ‘competing responsibilities’, this article examines the ways in which experiences, skills and discourses of the socialist past were mobilized during the first year of the pandemic in the Czech Republic in diverse, often contradictory…

Topics: Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Nutritional Practices and Experiences of People on Vegan Diet with Healthcare System: A Qualitative Study

Objectives: The growing popularity of diets that restrict the consumption of animal-based foods is an important new challenge for the public healthcare system in Czechia. While the environmental and health-related benefits of plant-based diets are widely discussed in the media, people who follow these diets may lack professional support in terms of nutritional advice and even access to healthcare. The present study aims to map the nutritional practices and experiences with the healthcare system of people in Cz…

Topics: Public health, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Sociologie ve válečném stavu

Topics: Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut: Sensing, tasting and knowing with food

This article offers insights into eating practices, conceptualising and making of ‘good’ food by people living with chronic disease. Based on ethnographic research focussing on people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and undefined IBD) in the Czech Republic, we explore what it would mean to conceptualise disability from the non-normative gut. We trace the practices of tinkering with foods and one’s body, and ways of learning to sense (with) dysbiotic guts that people…

Topics: Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress

Drawing upon ethnographic research on human living and producing with fungi, and Haraway’s theorization of sympoiesis and the model ecosystems of mycorrhizae developed in current mycological research, we offer a concept of sympoietic growth. Sympoiesis is a concept that suggests a way of thinking about growth as a more-than-human process and provides an alternative political imaginary both to current forms of economic growth and to the idea of “degrowth.” We explore humanfungi co-operation in forests, an…

Topics: Economy, Sociology of Sciences, Environment

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Život podle ZOE: přísliby a meze výzkumu více-než-lidské jedinečnosti

Kapitola sociologicky analyzuje případ výzkumné a zároveň komerční iniciativy společnosti ZOE, která představuje globální avantgardu lékařsko-mikrobiomového výzkumu v oblasti personalizované medicíny a výživy. Zajímavá je nejen kvůli inovativní metodologii, kombinaci špičkového „základního“ výzkumu a komerční služby pro klienty, které se vzájemně potřebují jako strategie poznávání a získávání dat, nebo kvůli tomu, jak sebe a své výsledky veřejně prezentuj…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Přepisování viru: Jak věda dělá skutečnost (nejen) v době epidemického rozrušení

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Systémové řešení bytové nouze rodin a jednotlivců na úrovni obcí Náměty a doporučení pro města a obce s vysokou mírou bytové nouze

Průlomová publikace, ve které organizace Platforma pro sociální bydlení, R-Mosty a Sociologický ústav Akademie věd ČR přináší obcím ucelený návod a podporu, jak řešit bytovou nouzi na svém území.Dokument má být příručkou, sadou nástrojů a pomocníkem pro ty, kdo se vlastní iniciativou, na základě přání kolegů či nadřízených nebo v reakci na poptávku svých klientů dostanou do pozice řešitelů bytové nouze a chtějí využívat odpovědné, humánní a fungujíc…

Topics: Housing, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Studená válka, horký mír: politická ekologie v antropocénu

Topics: Globalization, Climate Change, Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Predatory Publishing and the Imperative of International Productivity: Feeding Off and Feeding Up the Dominant

Inspired by Lin and Law’s discussion of “modes of international” (2013, 2014), we argue in this chapter that gaming metrics, predatory publishing, and exploiting the model of gold open access (Beall, 2012) can be partly understood as a logical response to the imperative of internationalization going wild. It enacts a different, yet dubious, alternative mode of internationalization for those researchers and institutions who fail—for better or worse—within the established mode of international, with it…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Evidence-Based Alternative, ‘Slanted Eyes’ and Electric Circuits: Doing Chinese Medicine in the Post/Socialist Czech Republic

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Situating biologies of traditional Chinese medicine in Central Europe

Since the concept of ‘local biologies’ was proposed in the 1990s, it has been used to examine biosocial processes that transform human bodies in similar and different ways around the globe. This paper explores understandings of biosocial differentiation and convergence in the case of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the Czech Republic. Specifically, it examines how Czech TCM practitioners view TCM as universally applicable while fine-tuning it to situated biosocial conditions, experimenting with the c…

Topics: Globalization, Sociology of Sciences, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Devices of difference: On the socio-material forms and effects of technologies in complementary and alternative medicine

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Neither magic bullet nor a mere tool: negotiating multiple logics of the checklist in healthcare quality improvement

Over two decades, the checklist has risen to prominence in healthcare improvement. This paper contributes to the debate between its proponents and critics, making the case for an STS-informed understanding of the checklist that demonstrates the limitations of both the ‘checklist-as-panacea’ and ‘checklist-as-socially-determined’ positions. Attending to the checklist as a socio-material object endowed with affordances that call upon clinicians to act (Hutchby 2001, Allen 2012), the study revisits the ef…

Topics: Care, Sociological Theory, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

The culture of orphaned texts: Academic books in a performance-based evaluation system

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Equality, efficiency and effectiveness: going beyond RCTs in A. L. Cochrane's vision of health care

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Exploring biomedicalization through complementary and alternative medicine in a postsocialist context

Drawing on fieldwork in the postsocialist Czech Republic, we explore the transformative processes of biomedicalization, both within and in relation to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We argue that it would be simplistic to understand evidence of these processes in CAM as a sign that CAM has fallen prey to biomedicine. Instead, we show how particular CAM practices play a groundbreaking role in shaping developments in contemporary health care. In this respect, we question the utility of the concept…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Chinese medicine on the move into Central Europe: A contribution to the debate on correlativity and de-centring STS

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

On the track of c/overt research: Lessons from taking ethnographic ethics to the extreme

Topics: Research Methodology, Work

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Academic stratospheres-cum-underworlds: When highs and lows of publication cultures meet.

Topics: Sociology of Sciences

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Frame Against the Grain: Asymmetries, Interference, and the Politics of EU Comparison.

A new collection that analyses how exactly comparison -- as a particular type of social scientific practice -- is done, while assessing some of its opportunities and limitations. It features case studies of comparative practices that range from colonial architecture, to hacking communities, to ranking practices in hospitals and academia, while also examining the practical challenges of achieving comparison. This might include the need to collaborate in teams or to stretch comparisons across time and space.Over…

Topics: Research Methodology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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